CV Lattes
Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas (ICB) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Erica de Sousa in research grants and scholarships supported by FAPESP.
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Obesity has been raised worldwide in an alarming way. It is broadly known that risk factors for obesity are a combination from genetics and environmental. In this context, from studies in animals and human we learned that epigenetics is an important risk factor, becoming clear that maternal metabolic status before and during pregnancy and lactation affects offspring metabolism for their w…
The voltage-dependet anion channel variant 1 (VDAC1) is a porin located in the outer mitochondrial membrane and establishes the main route between the organelle and cytosol: through the 3nm channel pass ions, sucrose and nucleotides. Beyond the regulation of mitochondrial metabolic functions, VDAC1 is a point of convergence of a myriad of cellular death and survival signals, interacting w…
Obesity has been raising worldwide in an alarming way. It is well known that risk factors for obesity are a combination from genetics and environmental factors that lead to a chronically unbalanced energy intake relative to its expenditure. Obesity in women of reproduction age is particularly concerning as there is overwhelming evidence that being born to an obese mother not only has imme…
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